Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2003 00:52:48 -0500 | From | Roberto Sanchez <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.0-testX show stoppers |
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Bob wrote: > Craig Bradney wrote: > >> For the Athlon, keep in touch with the nforce thread on here.. There are >> patches due to timing issues with the nforce chipset. >> For me, so far, just using this one works: >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/2.6.0-test11-bart1/broken-out/nforce2-apic.patch [SNIP] > The patch works for a lot of people. I've seen those drive > errors, irq7 disabled, spurious 8259a messages with a > bios and acpi and apic and lapic and linux acpi handling > conflict usually related to nforce2 and amd cpu's are > usually involved. > > My nforce2 amd system got to working with apic and lapic > and acpi when I did a bios flash update.
I also tried flashing the BIOS, but that was a complete disaster. I have a BioStar motherboard (M7NCD Pro), and when I flashed to the 1007 BIOS, I started getting segfaults during init, was unable to log in most times, and the machine was generally unusable.
When I reflashed to the (old) 0630 BIOS, the above patch worked its magic.
Incidentally, everyone should stay away from the 1007 BIOS for the M7NCD Pro.
-Roberto [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ![\](/images/icornerr.gif) |